growlern. a toilet. Where’s the growler
around here? We only have one growler
in this house.
grub[gr@b] 1. n. food. Hey, this grub’s
pretty good. What time’s grub? 2. and
grub upin. to eat [a meal]. When do
we grub? Let’s grub and get going. 3. tv.
to eat something; to eat a meal. Are you
going to grub that whole pizza? Grub
your food and let’s go. 4. n. an earnest stu-
dent. (Collegiate. See also grade-grub-
ber.) Martin is not exactly a grub. He
gets good grades without trying. The test
was so hard, even the grubs did poorly. 5.
n. a sloppy person. (From grub worm.)
Don is such a grub all the time. Sorry I
look like a grub. I’ve been doing some
plumbing. 6. Go to grubbies.
grubbersGo to grubbies.
grubbies and grubbers; grubs[“gr@biz
and “gr@b#z, gr@bz] n. worn-out cloth-
ing; clothing one wears for the occasional
dirty job. I have to go home, put some
grubbies on, and paint the house. There
I was, running around in my grubs when
the Senator stops by to say hello!
grubby[“gr@bi] mod. unclean; untidy; un-
shaven. Pete looks sort of grubby today.
What’s wrong? Who’s that grubby guy?
I feel grubby, and I want a shower.
grub on somethingin. to eat something.
What are you grubbing on? It looks
horrible.
grub upGo to grub.
gruesome-twosome[“grus@m”tus@m] n.
two people or things. (Jocular. Neither
the things or the people have to be grue-
some.) Well, it’s the gruesome-twosome.
Come in and join the party. The grue-
some-twosome will both start in tonight’s
game.
grunchGo to grunge.
grunge and grunch[gr@ndZ and gr@ntS] 1.
n. any nasty substance; dirt; gunk.
There’s some gritty grunge on the kitchen
floor. What’s that grunch on your tie? 2.
n. an ugly or nasty person; a repellent
person. Heidi thinks that Bart is a
grunge. Some grunch came by and
dropped off this strange package for you.grungy[“gr@ndZi] 1. mod. dirty and smelly;
yucky. Get your grungy feet off the
table! My feet are not grungy! What
is this grungy stuff on the closet f loor? 2.
Go to gungy.
grunt[gr@nt] 1. n. an infantry soldier. (Mil-
itary. From the gutteral sound made by
a pig, and anyone doing very heavy la-
bor.) Hey, you grunts! Get in line!
Get those grunts out on the field at sun-
rise! 2. n. a low-ranking or subservient
person. (Someone who is likely to utter
a grunt because of the discomforts of
menial labor.) Get one of the grunts
over here to clean this up. Let’s hire a
grunt to do this kind of work. 3. n. a belch.
I heard your grunt! Does that grunt
mean you like my cooking? 4. n. a hard-
working student. Martin isn’t a grunt.
Everything’s easy for Martin. The grunts
got B’s on the test. It was that hard! 5. n.
a wrestler. (Possibly in reference to a
grunting pig.) Two big grunts wearing
outlandish costumes performed for the
television cameras. One grunt threw the
other grunt out of the ring.grunt workn. hard, menial labor; tedious
work. I’m tired of doing grunt work for
minimum wages. Who is supposed to do
the grunt work around here? Not me!
gubbishn. nonsense; useless information.
(Computers. A combination ofgarbage
and rubbish.) There’s nothing but gub-
bish on my printout. I can’t make any
sense out of this gubbish.guber and goober[“gub#] 1. n. a facial
pimple. (See also goob.) Wow, l o ok at
that giant guber on my nose. How does
anybody get rid of goobers? 2. n. a tumor.
(Jocular medical slang. Possibly because
it grows beneath the surface like the
goober—the peanut. See also boogie.)
Dr. Jones took a huge goober out of a lady
this morning. The patient with the ab-
dominal goober is going into surgery now.guck[g@k] n. a thick, sticky substance;
yuck. What is this guck on the bottom
of my shoe? The doctor painted somegrowler